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  1. Since not everyone with aol was forced to accept aolgold I fully expect aolgold to provide me with all of the features that I have had.

    I want the edit feature, my choice of backgrounds, colors, calendar, etc. I definitely feel discriminated against with this substandard model. I keep getting refused when I try to send emails with pictures in them for some annoying code of numerous numbers.. I want to know why I continue to receive notices that I have not yet terminated my old aol also. It's so helter skelter if whomever is sending them doesn't even have a record that I'm already being punished with aolgold. It's continues to sound like a threat when I'm already suffering with this new zero 'upgrade'. Maybe…

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  2. Peoplewhiz

    I received a "popup message" on AOL for an outfit called "PeopleWhiz" proporting that it contained hundreds and hundreds of records of people which included background, criminal and all other types of data on just about everyone in the country. I decided to give it a try and used it to search my own name and found that it contained primarily false and incorrect data, or data which pertains to other people having a similar name without any regard to associating the information to the proper person. As you "progress" through the program it tells you there is…

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    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    Responded  ·  Product Support responded

    Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will have our Ad Team look into this.

  3. ADD ON

    9.8.2 had dozens and dozens and dozens of different FONTS. GOLD has only 10 or 12. This is unacceptable. I lost my flair to writing an entertaining letter. My visual letters alone was a gift to my reader. My letters are now BLAND. BRING THAT BACK

    What should "Mail waiting to be sent' DO??. I think as in 9.8.2 if one decides to hold back an uncompleted letter and saves it in MWTBSent. One should be able to go to that letter and continue to make changes on it. NO WAY!!! That letter is frozen and can no longer be…

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    The Desktop Team is planning on adding a larger variety of mail fonts in a future update.

    AOL Desktop Gold has a new way of spell checking your emails. This is done automatically, in real time, as you compose your messages.

    When the AOL Desktop Gold detects a spelling error, the word is highlighted by a red line under it. (Click the link below to see an image for an example)

    http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/fss/4db80cc33bd37e32201f88ab1843266a/Gold+Mail+-+1%3A2+Spell+Check+How+to+identify.png

    To correct the spelling error, right-click the word and select one of the options provided. (Click the link below to see an image for an example)

    http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/fss/ee1be6b821550147cd0214e4f5846dee/Gold+Mail+-+2%3A2+Spell+Check+Choose+the+word.png

    Regarding the freezing issues please call at
    1-888-265-3733.

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  5. AOL will not fix constant running background processes from AOL Gold in Windows 10 slowing all systems due to this - they fall a deaf ear!!

    AOL Gold on Windows 10 will not stop running multiple background processes for the last 2 months. Gold & W 10 all up to date. No new antivirus installed - always same Norton for years. Worked fine for almost a year. Uninstalled & reinstalled by your people 10 times, never fixed. No one at AOL will fix this for us, called a dozen times & we pay $13.99 a month for this! Must reboot with every icon opening ro erase the inappropraitely stored background processes or icon will not open up again! Only app that does this - dozens of…

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  7. Fix the email so when you delete the mail you opened so it doest fade into the mail box

    fix the mail box when you open a new mail then close it. It will fades into the mail box and takes forever to go away. Then it tells me AOL is not responding. Also when you try to open a new mail it will not open until the ad loads Which sometimes take a while and you set there and wait. You spend a'lot of time waiting on the ads to load very upsetting.

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  8. Looks like I am not the only one!!!!!! For your search: “Your rules cost me most of yesterday, my health and my day today!

    Now on my own but after hours ++++ of tech help and a totally incompetent and bone == headed C.S. person who would not transfer me to Tech even though I have paid per month since 1085 for that help! and I was up until 4:30 AM this AM, and would not text me to verify me today to help me to get through the problems I had again today with AOL Gold since I had too many texts over the last 12 hours, with no matter that I would leave for an 8 day trip after tomorrow and needed…

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    We’re sorry to hear about your experience. It’s certainly our expectation and desire that you receive the highest quality service when working with customer support. We’re sad to hear that it sounds like you did not. Rest assured that we’ve captured your complaint and will make sure your experience is shared with others in an effort to prevent this in the future.

  9. I spent 45 minutes on hold with two different people. The first just referred me to another who while trying to help me, dropped the call.

    Hire people that know your software. The person in tech support did not know that your company has stopped separating emails from people in my address book and everyone else. So now, many of my important emails are going to the spam folder.

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    We’re sorry to hear about your experience. It’s certainly our expectation and desire that you receive the highest quality service when working with customer support. We’re sad to hear that it sounds like you did not. Rest assured that we’ve captured your complaint and will make sure your experience is shared with others in an effort to prevent this in the future.

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  11. multiple aol desktop golds

    How many computers can have aol desktop gold installed at one time? In other words, can I have more then two aol desktop gold softwares installed on multiple computers? Can I have three or five?

    With most software out there, you can have from only one to up to three or five, but this info is nowhere to be found, even on google. AOL chat doesn't know which is weird.

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  12. AOL Gold mail issues.

    I'm having issues with sending multiple emails to multiple addresses. I keep getting an error message. I've tried to get help with this by talking to tech support. Nothing has been resolved. Email with AOL Gold has been a problem since it's inception. Why are we paying for an upgrade that is worse that the old software? And why can't we speak to someone who understands English not just speak it? Some problems can't be resolved by sitting at a computer with a step by step manual to follow. I spent 45 minutes on the phone yesterday with a tech…

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  13. Why do I have to select to delete emails twice now. Very frustrating

    go back to one click delete on laptop computers or check marks on all you want to delete and only have to hit delete once

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  14. This forum is for you to make product suggestions and provide thoughtful feedback. We’re always trying to improve our products and we can u

    Tell us how we can improve your AOL Desktop Gold experience.

    That, Sir, is an impossibility because you don't LISTEN.

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    Support Request  ·  Miha responded

    One of our expert technicians can help you out and fix the sending issue. Please call 1-888-265-3733.

  16. I have been contacting AOL for OVER 1 year (open ticket 07256897). I have continually had every problem you can imagine. Slow email sending,

    I have been contacting AOL for OVER 1 year (open ticket 07256897). I have continually had every problem you can imagine. Slow email sending, cannot open mail, try again, email crashes. Template issues, etc, etc. Each time I call tech support, I must wait a minimum or 10-15 minutes, go through a lengthy id process, wheras I need a text sent to my phone with a code. THEN, I need to explain my TECH PROBLEM to billing, so they can then transfer me to tech support, who has another wait. If they cannnot resolve the problem, they will say, are…

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  17. problems with saving emails on aol - There should be a search bar to put in the file & save on my PC is unclear

    Problems with saving emails on AOL:
    1. There should be a search bar to allow to go immediately with out having to scroll when very often the email goes into some wrong folder as I am scrolling & if I did not resend to myself before trying to save it to make sure I still have it if it does go into the wrong folder, it is lost.
    2. Create a new folder should be at the top not the bottom
    3.The option to "Save on my PC" is apparently not what you think it is as explained to…

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    1 comment  ·  Admin →

    Thank you for sharing your feedback, we will make sure this gets to the appropriate team for review. There are two ways to store your emails in folders. You can either “Save on AOL” and there email folders can be accessed from other computers and devices, or your can use “Save on My PC” and have the mail folders stored locally in the AOL Desktop personal filling cabinet (email folders can be accessed only from the computer where the emails were saved). For more information about this, please check the section titled “Using Mail in the new AOL Desktop Gold” from the following help article: https://help.aol.com/articles/the-new-aol-desktop-using-mail-aim-browsing-the-web

  18. Approved emails are now landing in the spam folder and spam is in the approved emails.

    Approved emails are now landing in the spam folder and spam is in the other folder.

    Also, if you delete a few emails, the computers auto deletes ALL OF THEM. FIX THIS OR GIVE ME 98.2 back.

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  19. PROPERLY ASSIST OR Call your customers back WHO PAY FOR SERVICE

    I have been contacting AOL for OVER 1 year (open ticket 07256897). I have continually had every problem you can imagine. Slow email sending, cannot open mail, try again, email crashes. Template issues, etc, etc. Each time I call tech support, I must wait a minimum or 10-15 minutes, go through a lengthy id process, wheras I need a text sent to my phone with a code. THEN, I need to explain my TECH PROBLEM to billing, so they can then transfer me to tech support, who has another wait. If they cannnot resolve the problem, they will say, are…

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  20. Excessive ads and liberal-slanted news!!

    You've now found a way to post advertising in the white space behind our email? Just another way AOL has found to take up band space to make everything work slower and jam up which is a constant problem. I pay for this service. TAKE AWAY THE UNNECESSARY ADVERTISING!!!!! While you're at it, try to be a little less liberal in your "news reporting". Remember, I pay for this service. I don't pay for your liberal-slanted news or your excessive advertising.

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